<p>I think it’s very funny that my son who really didn’t want to look outside the NE (though he did almost get seduced by U of Chicago) has spent his entire junior year abroad in the mideast and will likely be looking for work overseas when he graduates from college. You just never know. </p>
<p>My older son refused to look at colleges in the south because he loathes hot weather. He’s the one who wore nothing but a lightweight fleece all winter long his senior year in high school. He went to college in Pittsburgh which in my book is the midwest.</p>
<p>My grandparents live in Florida, one uncle lived in Greensboro NC, and my parents spent about 10 years in Lexington, VA, so I have a pretty good idea of both the ups and downs of northerners living in the south. Like anywhere, there are good and bad things about the area(s). You couldn’t pay me to retire to Florida!</p>